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backbored

backbored is the simple past and past participle of backbore.

Meaning of backbore

Verb

backbore (third-person singular simple present backbores, present participle backboring, simple past and past participle backbored)

  1. (transitive) To modify (a weapon's barrel) so as to increase the bore diameter.
  2. To bore from the backside of a workpiece by using a boring tool that passes through one or more through holes, deploys a cutting edge (or receives it by manual insertion from an operator), bores a feature on the far side, retracts the cutting edge (or has it removed), and then retreats back through the hole (toward the tool's origin).

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Questions about backbored

What is backbored the simple past and past participle of?
Backbored is the simple past and past participle of backbore.

Words near backbored in the dictionary

  1. backboned
  2. backboneless
  3. backbonelessness
  4. backbones
  5. backbore
  6. backbored
  7. backbores
  8. backboring
  9. backbox
  10. backboxes
  11. backbreaker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backbored (page history and authors); backbore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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